Comparing a paper based monitoring and evaluation system to a mHealth system to support the national community health worker programme, South Africa: An evaluation

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Neupane, Sunisha ^a   Odendaal, Willem ^b   Friedman, Irwin ^c   Jassat, Waasila ^d   Schneider, Helen ^a   Doherty, Tanya ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^c HealthPro The Seed Trust   (South Africa)

^d Health Systems Trust   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Community based services; Community health workers; mHealth; Monitoring and evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARDS; TELEMEDICINE;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; SOUTH AFRICA; TELEMEDICINE;

EID: 84908498374     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-14-69     Document Type: Article

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